Japanese destroyer Okikaze
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| Career |  |
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| Launched: | ca. 1920 |
| Fate: | Sunk in action, 10 January 1943 |
| Struck: | 1 March 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,215 tons |
| Length: | 336 ft 6 in (102.6 m) |
| Beam: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 Kanpon boilers 2 Parsons geared turbines 2 shafts at 38,500 SHP (29 MW) |
| Speed: | 39 knots (72 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,000 nmi. at 15 knots (7,400 km at 28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 148 |
| Armament: | 4 × 4.7 in (120 mm)/45 cal S.P. guns 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes in three twin mountings 2 × 7.7 mm machine guns |
Okikaze ("High Seas Wind")[1] was a Minekaze-class destroyer, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy immediately following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers throughout the 1920s and 1930s until gradually replaced by newer types.
Obsolescent by World War II, Okikaze performed patrol and convoy escort duties from Yokosuka in 1942. On 9 January 1943, Okikaze departed Yokosuka to resume antisubmarine patrolling off Tokyo Bay. On 10 January, she was torpedoed and sunk by USS Trigger (SS-237) off Katsura Lighthouse, 35 miles southeast of Yokosuka (Coordinates: ).
[edit] References
- ^ Japanese Warship Names. Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.
- Nevitt, Allyn D. (1997). IJN Okikaze: Tabular Record of Movement. Long Lancers. Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.
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